Mill – Sam and Luther are fighting crazily, with Sam trying to reach something and Luther grabbing one of his legs and pulling him away from it. He begins to bang Sam’s head against the ground, over and over.
Shaking both her fists, Lilith advances on Dean: “BABOOM! BABOOM! BABOOM! He’s very close to the end, gasping for air, hand over his pounding heart.
Sam finally succeeds in looping a chain over Luther’s thick neck. “BOBBY, PUNCH IT!” shouts Sam. Driving the Impala, Bobby does as ordered, road-hauling poor Luther one more time.
“BABOOM!!! BABOOM!!! BABOOM!!! screams Lilith, advancing on Dean, who has both hands pressed to his heart.
Bobby drives Luther’s struggling ghost around the outside of the mill.
Lilith watches as Dean takes one of his final breaths before his heart stops.
Luther’s ghost dissipates into nothing, starting from his feet and ending with his head (terrific piece of special effects here). The mill equipment slowly grinds to a halt. Bobby stops the Impala and looks over his shoulder, breathing a sigh of relief.
Dean appears dead, his eyes wide open. He takes in a harsh, shuddery breath, coughing. He checks his arms—clean!–and lies back, exhausted.
Mill, outside – Bobby hands out beers to the brothers to celebrate their victory. “You guys road-hauled a ghost–with a chain,” states Dean, disbelievingly. “IRON chain,” says Sam, “that’s why the spell worked.” Bobby grins. “That’s a new one,” says Dean. “It’s what he was most afraid of,” says Sam, “it was pretty brutal, though.” “On the up side, I’m still alive,” Dean reminds them, “so, go, team!” Dean assures them he’s feeling fine. “Ya sure, Dean?” asks Bobby, “‘Cause this line of work can get awful scary.” “I’m FINE!” says Dean–“you wanna go huntin’? I’ll hunt–I’ll kill anything!” “He’s ADORABLE!” says Bobby. Sam laughs hard. Bobby takes his leave and tells them to drive safe. Sam thanks him. As Bobby leaves, we get a magnificent shot of mountains and forests. “So what did you see, near the end?” asks Sam. “Besides a cop beatin’ my ass?” asks Dean. “Seriously,” says Sam. Dean looks up at his brother, and sees his eyes turn yellow. “Howler monkeys,” lies Dean, “a whole roomful of them. Those things creep the hell out of me.” “Right,” says Sam. “No, just the usual stuff,” says Dean, nothin’ I couldn’t handle.” Dean takes a swallow of beer, not looking at his brother.
BONUS! When Jared Padalecki failed to knock on the top of the car to alert his co-star, Jensen Ackles, to continue with their scene, “Eye of the Tiger” continued to play. Jensen took the opportunity to lip-sync the song (brilliantly, I might add) and act out the words as he climbed out of the Impala’s window and on top of the car. He scratched at his forearm, pointed to the sky, and in general did such a magnificent job, this was watched on YouTube and elsewhere with great glee and enjoyment for days afterward. by thousands of people You can hear Jared laughing and clapping in the background for his co-star/friend, and his prank certainly led to great pleasure for us fans!
1. Dean doesn’t mention seeing Lilith. Even after he’s supposedly cured of ghost sickness, he sees Sam with yellow eyes? Is that just leftover fear, or what? Why doesn’t he just talk to his brother, for God’s sake?
2. How funny was Dean’s “I quit” speech to Sam earlier? Do you think ghost sickness actually just brought out the way Dean REALLY feels about hunting at this point in time?
3. Sam’s voice when he became a demon was SO scary! Brrr! Poor Dean, he’s hallucinating his very worst nightmares! I guess that’s the whole point of ghost sickness – to make you so terrified, your heart just stops.
4. I found this story very disturbing and sad. Luthor was scary to people. He was big and probably had a low IQ. For Frank to just assume he had something to do with Jessie’s disappearance was wrong, but it sounds like he was unhinged by his wife’s disappearance and took it upon himself to administer frontier justice. The worst part of all is that the entire town supported it, especially local law enforcement. How could they let even an upright citizen get away with murdering another? Yet it probably has happened in real life more times than we care to think about. Just. . .SAD. I think this episode was supposed to be mostly humorous, but this part of the storyline made it hard for me to laugh” although the Gamecocks, the business with the snakes and reptiles, Dean running out of the mill after seeing the cat and screaming like a girl, the fey deputy who had a crush on Dean, the “monstrous” Yorkie, spleen juice splashing and heart-holding””there are so many!–sure made for a lot of giggles.
This was a terrific episode, not just for the laughs, or for Jensen’s wonderful rendition of “Eye of the Tiger,” but for the sad story of Luthor, a gentle man whose undeserved death went unpunished. Although I do hope that Frank, Al and other townspeople had many moments of sorrow and guilt for what happened to Luthor, a man who simply had an unfortunate crush on a married woman.
Hi Robin
I really liked this episode, I also saw it more than just a comedy. It brought out the subject of Dean’s innermost fears.
I believe the ghost sickness fed off of even the smallest of fears or apprehensions and intensify it to the point of turning it into something so horrific that it would become fatal.
In this case it fed off of Deans fear of Sam going dark side and his fear of going back to hell and of being reacquainted with Lillith.
As for Luther I also felt for him. To be judged and alienated because of your size and mental capacity, you would think in today’s society this wouldn’t still be happening.
As for your first question I think Dean was going to tell Sam, but when he saw his eyes glow yellow, so he stopped himself. I think it was just some remaining ghost sickness.
When I first saw this one I thought the kitten in the locker was a bit daft, I mean, how did it get there? Then we got some kits of our own and the horrible truth dawned. They can teleport. Although it only seems to work if the destination point is somewhere dangerous/ immpossibly hard to get out of/ really disconcerting to the nearest human … 😉
Yes, suze, kittens are like that. they feed on your innermost fears that they are helpless, NOT!